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Individual Animals That Made Scientific History
Individual Animals That Made Scientific History
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Clever Hans tapped his hoof, Betty bent a piece of wire, and a bar-tailed godwit called E7 kept flying across the Pacific. Each case changed what scientists could say about animals, sometimes by...
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Famous Zoo Animals From Before the Internet Age
Famous Zoo Animals From Before the Internet Age
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In common: Colo (gorilla)
Before a zoo animal could go viral, crowds lined up at the gates and photographs made the front page. These animals became famous before 2000, through newspaper stories, picture books, public...
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Bird Migration Hotspots in North America
Bird Migration Hotspots in North America
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Raptors follow ridges, shorebirds pause on broad mudflats, and songbirds rest after long water crossings. These sites give you a way to see those different migrations from a public lookout, trail...
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Glow-Worm Caves and Firefly Displays Worth Seeing
Glow-Worm Caves and Firefly Displays Worth Seeing
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In a cave, glow-worm larvae shine from a ceiling or a wall. Outside, adult fireflies flash above a forest floor or along a riverbank. These visitor sites let you see both kinds of light. Follow...
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Weird Extinct Animals and the Fossils That Explain Their Shapes
Weird Extinct Animals and the Fossils That Explain Their Shapes
by list_wrangler  • 
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Fossils preserve things as strange as a five-eyed swimmer, a spiral of sharklike teeth, and a whale with hind feet. These animals span the early seas and the age of mammals. Look for the clue in...
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Famous Dogs in History and the True Stories Behind Them
Famous Dogs in History and the True Stories Behind Them
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The famous dogs worth knowing usually left a paper trail: council minutes, newspaper columns, museum labels, a musher's own memoir. This list gathers real individual dogs whose lives were recorded...
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Marine Wildlife Around Britain’s Coasts
Marine Wildlife Around Britain’s Coasts
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Try a sheltered estuary for seals, a headland for porpoises, or a calm stretch of open water for the fin of a basking shark. This guide covers what you might see in British coastal waters and what...
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Long-Lived Animal Species and What They Reveal About Aging
Long-Lived Animal Species and What They Reveal About Aging
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A clam shell can preserve a record of centuries. A band on a bat can establish how many years it has been alive. The oldest animals raise a practical question before they raise a biological one...
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The Largest Animals That Ever Lived
The Largest Animals That Ever Lived
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The biggest animals of all time, living and extinct, group by group: the largest whale, marine reptile, dinosaur, shark, bony fish, land mammal, ape, crocodile, snake, flier, bird, squid...
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Extraordinary Animal Migrations and How Scientists Tracked Them
Extraordinary Animal Migrations and How Scientists Tracked Them
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A young shorebird crossed the Pacific without a stop. A whale turned up in a photo thousands of miles from where researchers first saw her. These documented journeys show how scientists follow...
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Animals That Use Tools in the Wild
Animals That Use Tools in the Wild
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A crow can turn a twig into a hook, and an octopus can carry a coconut shell until it needs shelter. These examples come from animals living in the wild. Look for what each animal uses and what...
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Extinct Birds Lost in Recent Centuries
Extinct Birds Lost in Recent Centuries
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A preserved skin, a museum photograph, or a sound recording may be all that remains of an extinct bird. These species and subspecies vanished within recent centuries. Each entry describes where...
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Apps for Identifying Birds, Insects, and Other Wildlife
Apps for Identifying Birds, Insects, and Other Wildlife
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Start with what you can collect. A recording can help with a bird in dense cover, a photo can narrow down an insect, and a measurement can help with a print in mud. These apps handle those clues...
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Documentaries That Follow One Animal’s Life
Documentaries That Follow One Animal’s Life
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A film can stay with a dairy cow through her working routine, watch an orphaned elephant learn to feed, or return to a wild stallion over several seasons. These documentaries and television...
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Remarkable Ways Animals Communicate
Remarkable Ways Animals Communicate
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Animals pass information to one another through dances, flashes, whistles and rumbles, and a handful of those signals have been tested closely enough that researchers can say what they carry. Each...
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Intelligent Birds & What Experiments Show About Them
Intelligent Birds & What Experiments Show About Them
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A parrot can pick the better odds, a crow can shape a tool, and a jay can remember more than where it left a meal. Each bird here has been tested in a published study. The entries explain what the...
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